{"id":6179,"date":"2022-01-11T14:53:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T13:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinefest.de\/festival\/archive\/congress-2021\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T23:47:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T22:47:12","slug":"congress-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cinefest.de\/en\/festival\/archive\/congress-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
19.-21.11.2021 The 34th International Film History Conference<\/strong> is an integral part of cinefest,<\/i> where the topics of the festival will be explored in presentations and discussions. The Conference Opening will take place on November 18, 2021 in the Metropolis Cinema. During the event, the winners of the Willy Haas-Award will be presented. The congress lectures will take place from 19-21 November 2021, from 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. each day, also at the Metropolis Cinema<\/strong>, as well as online<\/strong> as a live stream. At cinefest<\/i> the “2G” rules apply! This means that only vaccinated (Geimpfte) and recovered (Genesene) people are allowed to attend. In recent decades, the fate of Eastern and Central European, Jewish filmmakers who, while working in the German speaking film industry were driven into exile by the Nazi’s racism, has been relatively well researched \u2013 not in the least through CineGraph and cinefest<\/em>. But in addition there are countless filmmakers of all trades from Eastern and Central Europe who worked in Western Europe in the 20th century; whose careers have been far less researched. They migrated not only in reaction to political upheavals (from the \u201cOctober Revolution\u201d up to the end of the Prague Spring), but also to improve their professional opportunities. Their careers and experiences in the west spanned a diverse spectrum of both success and failure.
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Prior accreditation<\/a> is required for participation.
At 5pm starts the film program<\/a> at Metropolis cinema.<\/p>\n
Please bring proof of full Corona vaccination or recovery along with your ID\/passport when attending the congress on-site.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
One example, Latvian actress Marija Leiko travelled from Riga (then Russian Empire) to Germany, where she became a star in silent film. As sound films became the market standard, her film career ended and she returned to Riga. During the Stalinist terror, she was shot by the NKVD in 1938 (rehabilitated in 1957). Her partner Janis Guters (Johannes Guter), with whom she had come to Berlin, in 1917, directed numerous films in Weimar cinema. He remained in Nazi Germany and ended his film career with a series of “Tran und Helle” propaganda shorts. He died in the GDR in 1962.
After the founding of the Soviet Union, numerous Polish and Ukrainian filmmakers (from the Russian Tsarist Empire) were faced with the choice of either continuing to work under the strong influence of Moscow or go West.
After 1917, Russian set designer and film architect Andrej Andrejev decorated numerous important films in Berlin (THE 3 PENNY OPERA<\/em>), London, and Paris. After having worked closely with the German occupation company Continental (LE CORBEAU<\/em>) during World War II, he no longer received commissions in France and went to England (THE MAN BETWEEN) and the Federal Republic of Germany (MADELEINE UND DER LEGION\u00c4R).
The careers of Czechoslovak filmmakers \u2013 e.g. director Karel Anton, producer Milo\u0161 Havel, writer & director Franti\u0161ek \u010c\u00e1p, director Stanislav Barabas or cinematographer Igor Luther \u2013 can be used to analyze the film situation under different political conditions between the German Reich, Czechoslovakia, the \u201cProtectorate of Bohemia and Moravia\u201d and the Federal Republic of Germany.
The DEFA Stiftung is restoring the oeuvre of Slatan Dudov, including about 10 films, which \u2013 just like his career in the Weimar Republic, in France, and in the GDR \u2013 will be a focus at cinefest<\/em>.
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